Re: How do work tercile, percentile & funcion percentile_cont() ?

On 2020-04-22 10:00:49 +0200, PALAYRET Jacques wrote:
> From a table x(c1) containing 30 lines with integer values (column c1) from 1
> to 30 :
>
> SELECT percentile_cont(1./3) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY c1) FROM x ;
> percentile_cont
> ------------------
> 10.6666666666667
> (1 ligne)
> SELECT percentile_cont(2./3) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY c1) FROM x ;
> percentile_cont
> ------------------
> 20.3333333333333
> (1 ligne)

Think of the 30 values as points in a graph: The x values run from 0 to
29, the y values are your values. The points are connected with straight
lines. Since your y values just increase by 1 you have a straight line
from (0, 1) to (29, 30)

Then percentile_cont(1./3) is the value y value 1/3 along that line and
percentile_cont(2./3) is the y value 2/3 along that line. So you need to
find the y values corresponding to 29*(1/3) = 9.667 and 29*(2/3) = 19.333.
These are obviously 10.667 and 20.333 respectively.

hp

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